We
will never be justified or accepted as righteous before God unless we
stand before Him with Christ's perfect righteousness as our own. That is
the only righteousness God will ever recognize, so how can we receive
Christ's perfect righteousness?
The heavenly Father imputes it
to us through our faith. "Even as David also describeth the blessedness
of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works . . ."
(Romans 4:6). Paul quotes David as saying, "The richest, most blessed,
most peaceful man on earth is the one who understands he has a perfect
righteousness imputed to him — without works!"
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